fireboardn.

1767 C. Powys Diary 23 Mar. in Passages from Diaries Mrs. Powys (1899) 117 There is in every chimney a lacquered wire fireboard, the cleverest contrivance..as even the smallest spark cannot fly though them.

1795 M. Morgan Tour Milford Haven xxxii. 228 It was only the fire-board which had tumbled from its station.

?a1828 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. Tour Continent in Jrnls. (1941) II. 316 She replied ‘Oh Madame! you will soon be warm here!’ taking down a fire-board.

1885 Harper's Mag. Apr. 804/1 There was a..fire-place, but it was closed by a fire-board.

1922 House Beautiful Nov. 462/2 One of my neighbours who does n't like the dust that accumulates in her fireplace during the summer months has closed it with a wooden fireboard that resembles a pair of doors.

2010 Guardian 13 Feb. (Review section) 3/1 She hid the fragments in the fireplace behind a fireboard, forgetting they were bound to be discovered in winter.

1851 Preston Guardian 19 Apr. 7/2 There was a rail placed across the drift before the deceased went to work, but no fire-board.

1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Fire-board, a piece of board with the word fire painted upon it..to caution men and lads not to take a naked light beyond it.

1868 William Henry Lett. in Our Young Folks Sept. 566 Uncle Jacob had fixed some stones in a good way, and put his iron fireboard on top, and made a fire underneath. Then he spread his clams on the fireboard to roast.

1904 Era Mag. June 469/1 She glanced at the dreary-looking hot-air stove, backed by the ugly fireboard.

1908 Improvem. Bull. (Minneapolis) 3 Apr. 9 (advt.) Asbestos air cell fireboard for fireproofing boiler room ceilings.

1981 Associated Press (Nexis) 7 Dec. The fire apparently was rekindled by sparks that smoldered inside the pressed fireboard used as insulation in the attic.

2013 Building Design (Nexis) 8 Mar. 14 These walls are of timber studwork construction, filled with recycled paper insulation and internally lined with fireboard.

1896 J. W. Fewkes in Ann. Rep. Board of Regents Smithsonian Inst.1895 564 I found a fireboard identical to those now used to kindle fire in a New Fire ceremony at Walpi.

1913 I. Hornibrook Scout of To-day vi. 89 The boy scout began to work the bent bow..slowly turning that drill, grinding its lower point into the punky wood of the fireboard.

1987 M. Kochanski Northern Bushcraft (1988) i. 21 Fireboard. The board should be the source for most of the powder that eventually becomes hot enough to glow spontaneously from the friction of the drill.

2004 Hoosier Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 23 May (Herald-Times ed.) g8/1 They started their oven fire by placing a wooden dowel between the palms of their hands and spinning it back and forth on a flat ‘fireboard’, causing tiny flakes of hot wood to fall off, forming a small pile.

1907 Carpentry & Building (N.Y.) Mar. 81/2 It is supplied with a colonial column mantel having a marbelized slate fireboard with an onyx finish.

1937 A. Wynn in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 209 Large tidies, called lambrequins, were draped over the fireboard, or mantlepiece.

2013 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 7 Dec. 26 Fireplaces with a mantle and a fireboard with a clock are back in fashion.